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J. A. DUOO-M.

ANIMAL SHEARS.

No. 251,353. Patented Dec; 27,1881.

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J. A. DUOOM.

ANIMAL SHBARS. No. 251,353. Patented Dec. 27,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEAN A. DUOOM, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO BARIQUAND ET FILS.

ANlMAL-SHEARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,853, dated December 27, 1881.

Application filed July 20, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,JEAN AUGUSTE DUGOM, of Paris, France, have invented Improvements in Apparatus for Clipping or Shearing Horses, Sheep, and other Animals; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed sheet of drawings, making a part of the same, and that the said invention has beenpatented to me by French Letters Patent No. 140,818, dated January 29, 1881, for fifteen years.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus or instruments for clipping or shearing horses, sheep, and other animals, and for cutting human hair; and it has for its object to enable the clipper to be readily adjusted for use, either as an ordinary clipper-that is to say, a clipper in which the handles are perpendicular to the line of motion of the cuttingplate--or as a side clipper, or one in which the handles are parallel, or thereabout, to the movement of the cutting-plate. To this end the operating-levers are each made in two parts, and the two parts of each are so constructed and jointed together that they may be rigidly united in either of two positions, as hereinafter described.

In order that the invention may be readily understood, I have illustrated it in the accompanying drawings as applied to a horse-clipper by way of example; but I would have it understood that the invention is also applicable to clippers or shearers for other animals.

Figure 1 is a top view of the cutting-plates of a clipper provided with the adjustable levers, the adjustable portions of the levers being removed. Fig. 2 is a top view of the clipper arranged as an ordinary clipper. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same clipper arranged as a side clipper. Fig. 4 shows separately the cranks or levers that connect with the cutter-plates; and Fig. 5 shows upper, under, and edge views of the ends of one of the adjustable levers for connection with the parts shown in Fig. 4.

As the cutting parts of the instrument present no features of novelty, it is unnecessary to describe them in detail. They may be constructed according to any of the systems in general use. I will therefore confine the description to the improved construction of the levers.

The two levers are constructed each in two (Model) Patented in France January 29, 1881.

parts, the parts a a, which I term the cranks, being firmly connected by suitable means to the under cutter-plate, D, andjthe other parts, b b, which I call the adjustable levers, being adj ustably attached to the parts a a by being connected thereto in such a way as to be separable therefrom, as hereinafter stated, so as to admit of their being fixed in either of the two relative positions herein described.

The cranks a a differ from each other in form, as shown in Fig. 4. The part a is rigidly attached to the under or comb plate, I), and the part a pivots upon a stud, l, of the lower plate, D, and is connected with the upper or movable cutter-plate, E, by a pivot-pin, k, in the usual manner.

The levers b b are provided with the usual handles,c, and may be connected with the parts a a as follows: Each lever b b has at its contact end with its crank an ear provided with a notch or recess, f, which embraces a square stud, e, on the corresponding part, a and a. At the under side of each of said ears is a lug, g, which enters one or the other of two notches, d (1, formed at right angles to one another in each of the cranks a a. The studs e are screw-threaded to receive nuts h, by which and washers i the two parts a b and a b of each lever are respectively secured rigidly together. When the lugs g g of the two levers are placed in the notches d d, as shown in Fig. 2, and the nuts h tightened, an ordinary clipper is formed but by merely slackening the nuts and shifting the levers b b, so as to place thelugsg in the notches d d, as shown in Fig. 3, and again tightening up the nuts, the clipper is converted into a side clipper suitable for hair-cutting.

1 do not claim the mere adjustability of the angle between the handles and the cutters, as devices to that end have already been patented.

The combination of the cutters D and E with the cranks a a, each having a stud, e, and notches d d, and with the adjustable levers b I), each having notchfand stud g, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

JEAN AUGUSTE DUOOM.

Witnesses:

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